518 



(Pag. 496, 497.) Nephila fasciata f N. transalpina. 



Argiope Bruennichii (Scop.) 1772. 



Syn.: 1772. Aranea Brunnichii Scop., Obs. zool., in Ann. V Hist. -Nat., p. 125. 

 1773. „ speciosa Pall., Eeise durch verschied. Prov. d. Euss. Keichs, 



II, p. 732. 



1776. „ zebra Sulz., Gesch. d. Ins., p. 254, Tab. XXIX, fig. 15. 

 1787. „ FORMOSA Cyrill., Entom. Neap. spec. I, p. 7, PI. 9 (sec. 



Walck.). 



1787. „ PULCHRA Razoum. , Lettre sur une Araignee , in Journ. 



de Phys., XXXI, p. 372. 

 1789. „ „ id., H. N. du Jorat, I, p. 244. 



1789. „ FASCIATA Oliv., Encycl. meth., IV, pp. 188, 189. 

 1789. „ FORMOSA Vill., Linn. Ent., IV, p. 130; Nomencl. Ic, PI. 



XI, fig. 10. 



1789. „ CASPIA Gmel., in Linn. Syst. Nat., Ed. 13, I, V, p. 2959 



(Cfr. Lepbchin, Tagebuch der Eeise, cet. , I, p. 

 316, Taf. 16, fig. 1). 



1790. „ phragmitis Rossi, Faun. Etr., II, p. 128, Tab. Ill, fig. 13, 



Tab. IX, fig. 5. 

 1805. Epeira fasciata Walck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 55. 



1826. Segestria pulchra Risso, H. N. d. princ. prod. d. l'Eur. mer. , 



V, p. 160. 



1827. Argyope fasciata Sav. et Aud., Descr. de PEgypte, 2e Ed., 



XXn, p. 329. 



1830. Epeira fasciata Walck., Faune Franc., Arachn., p. 234, PL IX, fig. 2. 

 1835. Miranda transalpina C. Koch, in Hebr.-Sch^sff., Deutschl. Ins., 



128, 14 (sec. Die Arachn.). 

 1837. Epeira speciosa Krynicki, Arachnogr. Ross. dec. prima, in Bull, de 

 la Soc. Imp. d. Nat. de Moscou, Annee 1837, p. 76. 

 1839. Nephila transalpina C. Koch, Die Arachn., V, p. 33, Tab. CLIII, 



figg. 356, 357. 



1841. Epeira speciosa Eichw. , Fauna Caspio-cauc, in Nouv. Mem. de la 

 Soc. Imp. d. Nat. de Moscou, VII, p. 241, Tab. 

 XXXVII, fig. 5. 



1845. Nephila fasciata C. Koch, Die Arachn., XI, p. 159, Tab. CCCXCIV, 



fig. 954. 



1868. Argiope Brunnichii Thok., Om Aranea lobata Pall., in Ofvers. af 

 af Vet.-Akad. Forhandl., XXIV (1867), p. 591. 



When Olivier in 1789 described this species under the name of 

 Ar. fasciata, it had already, as may be seen from our list of syno- 

 nyms, received no less than five other denominations, among which 

 Ar. Bruennichii {Brunnichii] Scop, is the oldest ')• Ar. fasciata 



l) Scopoli's description is a follows: "Aranea Brdnnichii. Diagn. Statura 

 A. Linncei, sed pedes longiores. Abdomen fasciis flavis nigrisque varium. Vidi 



